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Kilbrink, Nina; Bjurulf, Veronica; Baartman, Liesbeth K. J.; de Bruijn, Elly – Journal of Vocational Education and Training, 2018
One of the most important issues in vocational education is the interaction between learning at school and at different workplaces. Students need to transfer what they have learned in and between these different learning arenas. However, little agreement exists among researchers on how to conceptualise and empirically study transfer of learning.…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Technical Education, Education Work Relationship, Transfer of Training
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Falkenström, Erica; Ohlsson, Jon; Höglund, Anna T – Journal of Workplace Learning, 2016
Purpose: The purpose of this paper was to explore what kind of ethical competence healthcare managers need in handling conflicts of interest (COI). The aim is also to highlight essential learning processes to develop healthcare managers' ethical competence. Design/methodology/approach: A qualitative study was performed. Semi-structured interviews…
Descriptors: Ethics, Competence, Health Services, Administrators
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Wärvik, Gun-Britt – Educational Action Research, 2016
This article is about a larger regional Swedish partnership programme that was established to develop site-based education for production workers. A partnership is seen as composed of different practice architectures. The actors involved represented larger transnational as well as smaller manufacturing companies, employers, the metal workers'…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Partnerships in Education, Workplace Learning, Foreign Countries
Cedefop - European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training, 2019
This report is the result of an explorative study, carried out at a time when interest in apprenticeship for adults was on the rise and research and evidence on the topic was scarce and fragmented. It has explored the topic from a conceptual and theoretical point of view, reviewing relevant existing research. It has also considered a practical…
Descriptors: Apprenticeships, Adults, Incentives, Foreign Countries
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Neher, Margit Saskia; Ståhl, Christian; Nilsen, Per – Journal of Workplace Learning, 2015
Purpose: This paper aims to explore what opportunities for learning practitioners in rheumatology perceive of in their daily practice, using a typology of workplace learning to categorize these opportunities. Design/methodology/approach: Thirty-six practitioners from different professions in rheumatology were interviewed. Data were analyzed using…
Descriptors: Medicine, Medical Education, Workplace Learning, Classification
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Björklund, Erika; Wright, Jan – Health Education Journal, 2017
Objective: Ideas from evolutionary theories are increasingly taken up in health promotion. This article seeks to demonstrate how such a trend has the potential to embed essentialist and limiting stereotypes of women and men in health promotion practice. Design: We draw on material gathered for a larger ethnographic study that examined how…
Descriptors: Evolution, Gender Differences, Health Promotion, Workplace Learning
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Hasson, Henna; von Thiele Schwarz, Ulrica; Holmstrom, Stefan; Karanika-Murray, Maria; Tafvelin, Susanne – Journal of Workplace Learning, 2016
Purpose: This paper aims to evaluate whether training of managers at workplaces can improve organizational learning. Managers play a crucial role in providing opportunities to employees for learning. Although scholars have called for intervention research on the effects of leadership development on organizational learning, no such research is…
Descriptors: Workplace Learning, Questionnaires, Transformational Leadership, Leadership Training
Dromey, Joe – Learning and Work Institute, 2020
This report explores the links between trade unions and workplace training, and the potential benefits of social partnership in the skills system. The UK is relatively unusual in having no formal role for trade unions in the training system. In most advanced economies, trade unions and employers work alongside government in shaping the skills…
Descriptors: Unions, Workplace Learning, Foreign Countries, COVID-19
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Lundin, Mona; Lundin, Johan – Journal of Workplace Learning, 2016
Purpose: In this study, online in-service training for people employed in the food production industry is scrutinized. The purpose of this study is to analyse how the participants adapt to such online environments in terms of the kind of discussions they establish. The more specific interest relates to how the participants discuss current work…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Quality Assurance, Discourse Analysis, Food Processing Occupations
Sweet, Richard – European Training Foundation, 2018
This handbook, first published in 2014, aims at helping policy makers and social partners understand some of the ways in which learning in the workplace can be encouraged and how its quality can be improved. It is also intended to help them understand some of the ways that such learning can be organised in a structured manner so that it benefits…
Descriptors: Work Experience Programs, Educational Policy, Workplace Learning, Educational Quality
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Tikkanen, Tarja; Nissinen, Kari – International Journal of Lifelong Education, 2016
The purpose of this study was to explore participation in job-related lifelong learning (LLL) among well-educated mature workers and compare it across four Nordic countries. Although this group generally is very active in LLL, the centrality of knowledge work in society, rapid pace of skills-renewal and rising learning demands for all…
Descriptors: Lifelong Learning, Well Being, Workplace Learning, Human Capital
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Lantz, Annika; Hansen, Niklas; Antoni, Conny – Journal of Workplace Learning, 2015
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to explore job design mechanisms that enhance team proactivity within a lean production system where autonomy is uttermost restricted. We propose and test a model where the team learning process of building shared meaning of work mediates the relationship between team participative decision-making, inter team…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Teamwork, Participative Decision Making, Manufacturing Industry
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Ärlemalm-Hagsér, Eva – International Journal of Early Childhood, 2017
Workplace-based learning experiences are integral to early childhood teacher education. In Sweden, the objectives of early childhood teacher education programmes require students to develop knowledge and skills about education for sustainability (EfS), in accordance with national policy documents. This includes how to work with EfS in everyday…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Workplace Learning, Early Childhood Education, Sustainability
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Hauer, Esther; Westerberg, Kristina; Nordlund, Annika M. – Journal of Vocational Education and Training, 2017
Awareness of the mechanisms underlying training and development (T&D) programmes is crucial in creating sustainable learning conditions in organisations. The organisational and psychosocial aspects of the work environment in Swedish elderly care is the focus of this longitudinal study, and the relation between process and results of a T&D…
Descriptors: Older Adults, Work Environment, Foreign Countries, Sustainability
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Fjellström, Magnus; Kristmansson, Per – Education & Training, 2016
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to compare, and identify both similarities and differences in, affordances for vocational learning in two contrasting education systems, for construction worker and shop salesperson apprentices, in Swedish contexts. Design/methodology/approach: Data were collected through interviews and observations in two…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Apprenticeships, Comparative Analysis, Affordances
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